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largest (external) HD for PS360?
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Ocellaris
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the 360 only support 16 gb partitions on external drives.
probably just easier to fix your network issue. what is your network issue anyway?
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probably just easier to fix your network issue. what is your network issue anyway?
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network issue is that my network is too slow to stream 1080p content, I plan to upgrade to gigabit, but iirc the 360 only has a 100mbps adapter built-in...
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you could transcode it down to a lower bit rate. with the 16gb partition limit, hd rips on the 360 are a bitch.
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No offense but wrong. Sorry but the 360 only supports 16gb if you want to use the usb drive for save games or installing them (which is an intentional limitation to help sell MS HDD's). If you only want to use the usb drive for media you can use any size you want.
I use a 80gb external 2.5" drive (from a broken mp3 player) for my media and it works brilliantly and have used a 500gb network drive too.
Speaking from a 360 point of view. You can use any size USB drive for media storage. The 360 will see all of it. My drives were NTFS formatted too.
Don't have a PS3 but i don't see why you couldn't use the exact same drive for both consoles.
Oh and 100mbps network is perfectly fine for 1080p playback. So i don't know why you are having problems there. I used to have my 360 connected to a wired network and streamed 1080p content fine over cable.
Oh and 100mbps network is perfectly fine for 1080p playback. So i don't know why you are having problems there. I used to have my 360 connected to a wired network and streamed 1080p content fine over cable.
Video and Audio get out of sync. It starts out fine, but by the end of the movie you hear a character's line usually after the actor says it... (PS3 is far worse, within minutes it starts happening and quickly gets to the point it's completely unbearable --- though to be fair this was over wifi, only within the last week wired the PS3 when my wifi router locked it out for currently undiagnosed reasons)
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No offense but wrong. Sorry but the 360 only supports 16gb if you want to use the usb drive for save games or installing them (which is an intentional limitation to help sell MS HDD's). If you only want to use the usb drive for media you can use any size you want.
I use a 80gb external 2.5" drive (from a broken mp3 player) for my media and it works brilliantly and have used a 500gb network drive too.
Speaking from a 360 point of view. You can use any size USB drive for media storage. The 360 will see all of it. My drives were NTFS formatted too.
Don't have a PS3 but i don't see why you couldn't use the exact same drive for both consoles.
Oh and 100mbps network is perfectly fine for 1080p playback. So i don't know why you are having problems there. I used to have my 360 connected to a wired network and streamed 1080p content fine over cable.
Ah, well that is retarded. I tried saving media and games on the same drive with my 360 sssooo... Glad to see MS is keeping everything logical.
hey, I have a 20gb HD on my 360, I'm glad to hear I *can* add a 16gb for games! makes traveling/storage a lot easier ^_____^
I do agree it's retarded though.
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If you format a hard drive using FAT32 then you can plug the hard drive right into the xbox and it will show up as an external storage device. Here you can play back your movies or music. Sure you can't save games or other things, but its perfect for video playback. There are some programs that will let you format any drive size into FAT32, I use a 500gb right now.
Video/Audio out of sync isn't likely a network problem - it's usually a decoding/transcoding problem. Your files will probably either not play from the USB drive, or will display the same sync errors. Network errors manifest with buffering and choppiness issues.
I was using PS3 Media Server and with the default settings I had a few media files that would do the same thing you mentioned. After messing with the settings (and updating my codecs), the sync problems went away.
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There are tutorials on the net on how to modify certain models of Western Digital 2.5" 250GB laptop drives for use with the 360 and save a bunch. Google is your friend.
Agreed. It's an encoding problem if the audio and video lose synch.
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video / audio sync issues are caused by the converting software. placing the file on the HDD and streaming it from there will NOT resolve the issue.
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100mbit is enough bandwidth to stream a full 45Gb bluray disc. Wifi probably wont, what speed is your Wifi? Probably 50mbit I'm guessing.
How do you stream anyhow, do the consoles do the actual decoding here? If they do it could be an incompatible codec or they may not be decoding it fast enough to keep it all in sync. I dont know much about console HD playback I'm afraid.
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its also caused by the bitrate being to high for the console to render/decode.. which is why a lot of people do transcoding to 8mbit bitrate or lower.. at least thats the limitation ive found with the first gen 360..
I use PS3 Media Server, which transcodes it on the fly. I also used Tversity in the past, but got tired of having to add every directory when PMS allows me to browse the entire PC for files without adding anything.
WiFi is 802.11g, and I'm not using it anymore, I hardwired everything (except the Wii) to 100mbps cables.
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you need wireless N to do hd streaming although netflix works just fine on wireless G and HD but it compensates by altering bitrate......
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8Mbit for video is overkill on DVD quality video but not enough for good HD. Also since the 360 can play HD-DVD videos (blu-ray and HD DVD share the same max video bit rate of 40Mbits/sec) the 360 obviously has no issues with video >8mbit so the problem must be elsewhere.
I use 1.5 and have no issues even with my LG KM900 arena phone decoding it and that thing is like comparing a NES to a 360 lol
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100Mbit wired ethernet can transfer upwards of 125Mbits/sec 1x blu-ray(what movies play at) is 36Mbits a sec so there should be no issues there......
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Xbox 360 is limited to 10mbit streams for H.264 and 15mbit streams for WMV.
I've confirmed it's software transcoding. Audio got out of sync on a 480p video. Also using a different codec (transcoding ENG vs JPN audio track) audio was not out of sync (unfortunately I'm not fluent in Japanese)
Still found no solution outside of plugging the TV into the PC, which negates being able to control the video with a remote...
Still found no solution outside of plugging the TV into the PC, which negates being able to control the video with a remote...